Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 00:52 -0400, Sandro Tosi a écrit : > Tbh, i think it's time to just rip the bandaid and upload mercurial > python3 to unstable, and deal with the consequences there (i > volunteer to do so); > > What do people think about this?
Against band-aid ripping : - breaking other packages is rude ; - sometimes a maintainer doesn't have time to deal with a problem when the problem arises ; For band-aid ripping : - if upstream still doesn't support Python 3 after all those years, the software is probably mostly dead ; - teams make it possible to alleviate personal schedule matters ; - obviously Sandro Tosi tried to help much already : it's not an out- of-the-blue move ; I really don't want to end up supporting Python 2 software without upstream help during a few years -- and that's what will happen if we don't kick Python 2 out before the next release! Cheers, JP